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Enhancing Academic Achievement in College Students through Attributional Retraining and Instruction.
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Perry, Raymond P.; Penner, Kurt S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Attributional retraining--a therapeutic method of reinstating psychological control--of 198 Canadian college students through a videotaped lecture enabled external locus of control students to learn more and make better use of homework study materials but offered no advantage to internal locus students. Results are interpreted in a social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attribution Theory, College Students
Stable and Transient Determinants of Students' Perceived Control: Implications for Instruction in the College Classroom.
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Magnusson, Jamie-Lynn; Perry, Raymond P. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
Students (N=340) at the University of Manitoba (Canada) with internal and external loci of control (LOC) received no training or received either contingent or non-contingent feedback. Student achievement and achievement attributions were measured against variations in expressiveness in a videotaped lecture. Training and LOC influenced students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, College Instruction, College Students